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J. H. HAVILAND.

CORSET.

Patented Oct. 29, 1889.

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-' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH l'I. HAVILAND, OF VVEEDSPORT, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE \VEEDSPORT SKIRT AND DRESS COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

CORSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 414,112, dated October 29, 1889.

Application filed June 29, 1889. Serial No. 316,028. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, JOSEPH H. HAVILAND, a citizen of the United States, residing at. lVeedsport, in the county of Cayuga and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Corsets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide a new and improved corset whereby the front thereof will be held, drawn, or stretched down in a smooth and correct position, while the hip is accurately fitted and partially covered by a flexible corded gore, and the curved lower end of the corded or like stay piece at the front, which is shown in my Letters Patent No. 309,4:60, dated December 16, 1884, will be thereby braced and supported from below by the flexible corded gore.

The invention consists in a corset having the novel and characteristic features of construction hereinafter described and claimed, reference being made to the accompanying drawing, in which the figure is a perspective view looking at the front of the improved corset.

In order to enable those skilled in the art to make and use my invention,I will now describe the same in detail, referring to the drawing, where The numeral 1 indicates the front corsetsection, 2 the front corsetsteels or stay, and 3 the rear corset-section, having the lower part of the forward edge 4 extending in a straight vertical line or approximately vertical line. A stay-section 5, of textile material, is arranged between and stitched to the adjacent edges of the front and rear corsetsection, extending from the upper edge of the corset in an approximately vertical line to the hip, and thence curved downward and forward to the lower end of the front corsetsteel. A stay-piece is arranged at each side;

but, as both sides of the corset are alike in construction, a description of one will be sufficient for both. The stay-piece is stiffened by a series of filling-cords 6,which follow the general contour of the stay-piece and, as shown, extend from the top edge of the corset in a vertical line and curve forward across the lower part of the corset-front to the front corset steel or stay 2. To the rear convex edge 7 of the corded stay-piece 5 is stitched the concave edge of a corded elastic gorepiece 8, which, ashere shown, has approximately the form of a right-angled triangle to provide a vertical edge 9, that is stitched to the vertical edge 4 of the rear corset-section, while the hypotenuse of the triangle is curved in harmony with and is stitched to the curved edge of the staypiece, as before stated. The filling-cords of the elastic gore-piece are parallel, or substantially so, to the lower edge of such gore-piece and extend in a direction around the body at right angles, or nearly so, to the vertical edge 4 of the rear corset-section. This corded or otherwise filled and stiffened elastic gore-piece fits over the hip and acts as a bracing-stay that supports and sustains the lower curved portion of the corded stay-piece 5, which combination is very desirable and useful in this type of corset, and constitutes the improvement on the corset described in my Letters Patent hereinbefore alluded to.

By my present invention 1 attain the advantages of the vertical stay-piece curved around and joined to the lower end of the front steel to stretch, draw, and hold the lower front part of the corset down in the desired smooth and correct position, with the elastic hip-fit composed of a brace-gore that subserves the purpose of a bracing-stay to the curved lower portion of the stay-piece 5.

It will be obvious that the stiffening-cords of both the stay piece and the bracing-gore may be of any suitable material properly inclosed in the fabric comprising these parts, and therefore I do not confine myself to cords of textile material, as elastic cords of rubber may be used, especially in the bracing-gore. By the described arrangement of the stiffening gore-cords they extend continuously across the hip portion, and are very desirable, since no joining-seam or joint is formed in this gore between the edges thereof.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is-* A corset having a corded side stay 5, which commences at the top, passes in an approximately vertical line down to the hip, and

then curves downward and forward to the corset-section to perfect the outline of the 10 inner edge of the front clasp, said stay havlower edge of the corset, substantlally as deing the convex rear edge 7 to its downward scribed.

and forward curved part joined to the con- In testimony whereof I have affiXed my sig- 5 cave front edge of a gore-piece 8, formed of a nature in presence of two witnesses.

single piece, having filling-cords extending J OSEPII H. HAVILAND.

continuously across the same substantially at lVitnesses:

right angles to its vertical rear edge, which ERNEST G. TREAT,

is attached to the vertical edge 4 of the rear W. M. HOWE. 

